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Article: Engineering Students Turn Vintage MGB Into Electric Car
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- U.S. Newswire
- Article date:
- September 11, 2009
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To: ENVIRONMENTAL EDITORS
Contact: Media: Karen Petit or Margaret Lamb, +1-803-777-5400,
kpetit@mailbox.sc.edu
COLUMBIA, S.C., Sept. 11 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The year was
1984. Roger Dougal, a newly minted Ph.D. in electrical engineering,
was beginning his career in the University of South Carolina's
College of Engineering.
He was the new owner of a 1972 MGB - a red convertible, perfect
for life in the Palmetto State, where he could zip along the
highways and city streets with the car's top down practically year-
round. Lightweight with easy handling, the MGB was a snazzy roadster
for a young professor on the go.
But that was, shall we say, soooo last century.
Fast forward about two ...